Writing as a Human Activity: Implications and Applications of the Work of Charles Bazerman
Edited by Paul M. Rogers, David R. Russell, Paula Carlino, and Jonathan M. Marine
Copy edited by Olivia Johnson. Designed by Mike Palmquist.
Writing As a Human Activity offers a collection of original essays that attempt to account for Charles Bazerman’s shaping influence on the field of writing studies. Through scholarly engagement with his ideas, the 16 chapters—written by authors from Asia, Europe, North America, and South America—address Bazerman’s foundational scholarship on academic and scientific writing, genre theory, activity theory, writing research, writing across the curriculum, writing pedagogy, the sociology of knowledge, new media and technology, and international aspects of writing. Collectively, the authors use Bazerman’s work as a touchstone to consider contemporary contexts of writing as a human activity.
Table of Contents
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Editors’ Introduction
DOI: 10.37514/PER-B.2023.1800.1.3
Part One. Academic and Scientific Writing
Chapter 1. New Cognitive Practices in a Master’s Thesis Proposal Writing Seminar, Paula Carlino
DOI: 10.37514/PER-B.2023.1800.2.01
Chapter 2. Case Studies on Chance Encounters in Literacy Development in Latin American Researchers, Fatima Encinas and Nancy Keranen
DOI: 10.37514/PER-B.2023.1800.2.02
Chapter 3. Changing Times; Changing Texts, Ken Hyland DOI: 10.37514/PER-B.2023.1800.2.3
Chapter 4. Situated Regulation Writing Processes in Research Writing: Lessons from Research and Teaching, Montserrat Castelló
DOI: 10.37514/PER-B.2023.1800.2.04
Part Two. Writing Pedagogy
Chapter 5. Writing at University and in the Workplace: Interrelations and Learning Experiences at the Beginning of the Professional Activity, Lucía Natale
DOI: 10.37514/PER-B.2023.1800.2.05
Chapter 6. Cultural Shaping of Standpoint and Reasoning in Analytical Writing, Liliana Tolchinsky and Anat Stavans
DOI: 10.37514/PER-B.2023.1800.2.06
Part Three. Sociology of Knowledge & Organizational Communication
Chapter 7. Genre Change Around Teaching in the COVID-19 Pandemic, JoAnne Yates
DOI: 10.37514/PER-B.2023.1800.2.07
Chapter 8. Opening Up: Writing Studies’ Turn to Open-Access Book Publishing, Mike Palmquist
DOI: 10.37514/PER-B.2023.1800.2.08
Chapter 9. Writing and Social Progress: Genre Evolution in the Field of Social Entrepreneurship, Karyn Kessler and Paul M. Rogers
DOI: 10.37514/PER-B.2023.1800.2.09
Part Four. Activity Theory
Chapter 10. Two Paths Diverge in a Field: Dialectics and Dialogics in Rhetorical Genre Studies, Clay Spinuzzi
DOI: 10.37514/PER-B.2023.1800.2.10
Chapter 11. Writing for Stabilization and Writing for Possibility: The Dialectics of Representation in Everyday Work with Vulnerable Clients, Yrjö Engeström
DOI: 10.37514/PER-B.2023.1800.2.11
Part Five. Writing Research Development
Chapter 12. A Review on Second Language Writing Research in China, Wu Dan and Li Zenghui
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Chapter 13. Twenty Years of Research on Reading and Writing in Latin American Higher Education: Lessons Learned from the ILEES Initiative, Natalia Ávila Reyes, Elizabeth Narváez-Cardona, and Federico Navarroö
DOI: 10.37514/PER-B.2023.1800.2.13
Part Six. New Media and Technology
Chapter 14. Rethinking Genre as Digital Social Action: Engaging Bazerman with Medium Theory and Digital Media, Jack Andersen
DOI: 10.37514/PER-B.2023.1800.2.14
Chapter 15. What Writers Do with Language: Inscription and Formulation as Core Elements of the Science of Writing, Otto Kruse and Christian Rapp
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Chapter 16. Genre Formation and Differentiation in New Media, Carolyn R. Miller
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Chapter 17. Change, Change, Change—and the Processes that Abide, Charles Bazerman
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Chapter 18. What We Teach When We Teach Writing: A Big Picture in a Small Frame, Charles Bazerman
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Appendix. The Publications of Charles Bazerman in Chronological Order
About the Editors
Paul M. Rogers is Associate Professor of Writing Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is a co-founder and former chair of the International Society for the Advancement of Writing Research (ISAWR) and a co-editor of seven collections.
David R. Russell is Professor Emeritus of English in Rhetoric and Professional Communication at Iowa State University. He has published widely on writing across the curriculum (WAC), international writing instruction, activity theory, and genre theory. He is the author of Writing in the Academic Disciplines: A Curricular History, numerous articles, and co-editor of four collections.
Paula Carlino, Ph.D. in Psychology, is Research Professor with the National Council of Scientific and Technical Research (CONICET) at the University of Buenos Aires, where she leads the multidisciplinary team GICEOLEM (Group for an Inclusive and Quality Education by Taking Care of Reading and Writing in all Subjects). She is also a Professor at the Universidad Pedagógica Nacional, Argentina.
Jonathan Marine is a doctoral student in George Mason University’s Writing & Rhetoric Program, where his research centers on the life, theory, and work of James Moffett. He was named the 2020 recipient of the National Council of Teachers of English ELATE James Moffett Award and is the Corresponding Secretary for the International Society for the Advancement of Writing Research.
Publication Information: Rogers, Paul M., David R. Russell, Paula Carlino, & Jonathan M. Marine (Eds.). (2023). Writing as a Human Activity: Implications and Applications of the Work of Charles Bazerman. The WAC Clearinghouse; University Press of Colorado. https://doi.org/10.37514/PER-B.2023.1800
Web Publication Date: February 14, 2023
Print Publication Date: October 2023
ISBN: 978-1-64215-180-0 (PDF) | 978-1-64215-181-7 (ePub) | 978-1-64642-391-0 (pbk.)
DOI: 10.37514/PER-B.2023.1800
Contact Information:
Paul M. Rogers: paulrogers@writing.ucsb.edu
David R. Russell: drrussel@iastate.edu
Paula Carlino: carlinopaula@gmail.com
Jonathan M. Marine: jonathanmmarine@gmail.com
Perspectives on Writing
Series Editors: Rich Rice, Texas Tech University; Heather MacNeill Falconer, University of Maine; and J. Michael Rifenburg, University of North Georgia
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